Lessons

Bookclub read [UoG]: this novel covers much of the life of Roland Baines, a nobody or anybody whose existence is so very ordinary it is almost spectacular.
Twisting back and forth through time, it starts rather unpleasantly, I thought - nearly enough to put me off. I stuck with Roland though and even warmed slightly to the rather useless man he becomes. He went to some interesting places, I particularly liked the time in East Germany, and collected a varied cast of co-stars around him.
For a book called Lessons, though, I don't feel Roland actually learnt much at all. I'm not sure I did either.